The French government has fallen after members of Parliament voted to oust Prime Minister Michel Barnier. The event serves as the first time the country’s government has collapsed in a no-confidence vote since 1962.
331 MPs voted in favor of the motion presented by the leftist NFP alliance, The Guardian reported.
The vote followed Barnier, only the prime minster for three months, forcing a financial plan aimed at reducing France’s budget deficit.
Mathilde Panot, the leader of the left France Unbowed parliamentary group, said, “In a republic, only the people are sovereign.” Panot added that Barnier had “the shortest-lived government of the entire Fifth Republic.”
French President Emmanuel Macron must now appoint a new prime minister.
This is a developing story.
